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Finished Valak Mountain. Right on about that cutscene.

Egils voice actor is so good.

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I started playing as Melia. I dunno if I'm playing her right. Usually I summon fire, then copy it, then thunder or water and then start using her art while alternating summoning more. I assume that's it.

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Grimlyn posted...

this time around I sure am making more use of trade items

damn Upas and Hodes weren't dropping their Embers or Camouflages so off to check trade items I went!

After exploring the whole of Makna Forest, I only ended up with 1 Enigma Lotus. You can be damn sure I said fuck that and traded for the 6 I needed for Pepa's cuteness quest.

I've been going through all the Frontier Village quests with Melia in the lead and Sharla in the party. Gotta build up that female affinity to show Paola that girls can be best friends too! Then Riki's thrown in because how could I not include the Heropon? Taking down the unique monsters isn't exactly the fastest with this team though, lol.

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I consider it insulting to include Sharla anywhere in the party

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Waluigi1 posted...

I started playing as Melia. I dunno if I'm playing her right. Usually I summon fire, then copy it, then thunder or water and then start using her art while alternating summoning more. I assume that's it.

I'm not entirely sure how the buffs stack or work with each other, but I start with lightning before summoning fire and copying it (and shooting them both off for double blaze). I'm working under the impression having the ether boost from lightning makes the fire attacks stronger. Then I discharge the electric, and summon and maintain aqua for small regen. By then my lightning refreshes, so I summon that again followed by wind, and discharge both. But yeah, when possible I always try to summon the lightning before shooting off the fire/wind elementals. It would be nice if someone could confirm that holding onto a lightning does in fact boost the damage for fire/wind (and if it boosts the blaze damage then even better!)

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gotta get that girl-girl affinity quest tho

... I'm doing Sharla-Melia atm too

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The Blaze damage is dependent on how high the base damage of the Discharge attack is, so having higher Ether should affect it.

...I assume.

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Grand Kirby posted...

I consider it insulting to include Sharla anywhere in the party

Why?

Frankly, I not only like her, I like playing as her.
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I spend most of the game playing as Seven.

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For melly you want to summon bolt and copy that for 40% ether buff, then just summon a 3rd element and launch that, but never the two bolt. I usually do Earth first for the poison, then flare and ice. By then Bolt and Copy should be cooled down and ready to use again for attacks as well. Bolt is generally the most damaging of the summons because it's a single target and not an AoE

After those I have Spear Break + Starlight Kick for the instant topple

then the last slot I have Burst End to lower all enemy defenses

I make sure she has a 3 slot weapon with Poison/Chill/Blaze Plus Gems

then on her equipment I have

- Debuff Resist 100%
- Aura Heal 150
- Unbeatable 50%
- Ether Up 100
- Topple Resist 100%
- Spike Defence 75%

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I would ditch the flare for the mind break for boss fights, the aura removal can be pretty clutch

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Why aura heal with no auras?

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oh whoops that snuck in there in case you were using Power Effect

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I like playing as Sharla because when you are mopping up weaker enemies for quests she is ridiculously efficient due to her range, especially with headshot.

Everybody is viable. I change my team regularly and am happy about that!

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yeah like right now I'm running Seven/Riki/Sharla just because they're the ones I have the lowest affinity with

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Oh yeah, there's another quest where you can be locked into the bad ending early. It's a late Colony 6 one where you need to have already restored almost all of it. Don't accept quests there when you have 2 Pterix Energy Eggs on you

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I don't know if this is because I'm left-handed, but I hate for map controls how ZR goes up a level and ZL goes down

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no I always have it backwards too

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I'd never heard of Seven until this topic <_<

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you should play more of the story!

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I'm not sure that jumping off the higher levels into the center pool will ever get old.

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Grimlyn posted...

I don't know if this is because I'm left-handed, but I hate for map controls how ZR goes up a level and ZL goes down

If it helps I'm right-handed and I still forget which button to press all the time

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I don't really know what it is about left/right cooresponding to up/down but this is wrong

oh wait I guess book reading directions, left/right flipping pages forwards or backwards

maybe

:|

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Grimlyn posted...

btw for those in Satorl Marsh and working on sidequest stuff

If you get a quest from Ewan about What is Love and then What is Courage, where the latter he will travel to Ether Mines and Satorl Marsh... if you follow him to Satorl Marsh you can trade him for a rare and annoying collection item, Forget-You-Not, two of which are also required for an optional Colony 9 quest

note the What is Love/Courage quests are mutually exclusive to a quest giving Matryona a Lake Drop to change up a painting, and Ewan won't trade the Forget-You-Not in Satorl Marsh until you have 3* affinity with Colony 6

so if you're like me and you've done everything you can in Satorl Marsh for now and still can't get a Forget-You-Not you might wanna keep this in mind and keep Ewan's quest around until you can pluck some off him

I kept this post in mind and left Ewan standing in Satorl Marsh, but then I got the Jiroque quest before getting Colony 6 to 3*. But wouldn't you know it, the first time I traveled back to Satorl Marsh, there were two blue exclamation marks for Forget-You-Nots ready to collect right away. So hooray!

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Okay, ready to go beat up a dinobeast.

https://i.imgur.com/AGeVjmc.jpg

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mnkboy907 posted...

I kept this post in mind and left Ewan standing in Satorl Marsh, but then I got the Jiroque quest before getting Colony 6 to 3*. But wouldn't you know it, the first time I traveled back to Satorl Marsh, there were two blue exclamation marks for Forget-You-Nots ready to collect right away. So hooray!

You lucky dog
I had to reset the game for at least 20 minutes to find a single forget-you-not for my collectipedia. Why Monolith Soft :(

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resetting the game right now to get rainbow slugs for Colony 6 Rank 4 special way up on digit 2 distant fingertip

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oh ya there we go

still awhile until I can get those other 2 things though

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Man, I've been slacking on the colony 6 restoration actually. I'm about to go to Prison Island and everything is level 1 still

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I forgot that because Mechonis doesn't have as many areas as Bionis they really pack in all those unique monsters everywhere


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My energy/patience for sidequests has officially run out I think. Getting 30 more quests from Melia's city defeated me so I think I'm just going to play the story now. I'm already way overleveled so everything is super easy anyway

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speaking of which here's the update for when all the timed sidequests run out



Almost there!

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I'm still stuck on 4* for Colony 9 and I can't figure out what I'm missing and it's driving me nuts

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mine was a random nopon I hadn't talked to a 2nd time

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I'm pretty sure I went through and talked to everyone again, but I supposed I'll give it another sweep tonight.

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I wish they had gone that one step further and let you set the current Colony 6 reconstruction goals as the active quest so you could see the blue exclamation points.


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Trying to find all the named npcs to talk to is the worst part about the sidequests/raising affinity.

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Yeah I didn't realize that green dot on the map = you should talk to this person until Eryth Sea so I doubt I'll have the energy to go back to the other cities and try talking to everyone.

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Talking to everyone doesn't take much time at all. The problem comes later, when you don't know who you need to talk to again to update the chart.

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skullbone posted...

Yeah I didn't realize that green dot on the map = you should talk to this person until Eryth Sea so I doubt I'll have the energy to go back to the other cities and try talking to everyone.

O_O

oh is that what it means?

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I've played Xenoblade Chronicles 3 times - it's one of my favorite JRPGs - and I've never once messed with the affinity chart at all. I don't expect I ever will, either!

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KamikazePotato posted...

Talking to everyone doesn't take much time at all. The problem comes later, when you don't know who you need to talk to again to update the chart.

I disagree mainly because the city maps are so freaking big and you have to change the time of day multiple times to get everyone to be available. It's great that the fast travel system is so quick but Shulk and company need to move at least twice as fast in my opinion. A turbo mode for movement would be a godsend

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KamikazePotato posted...

Talking to everyone doesn't take much time at all. The problem comes later, when you don't know who you need to talk to again to update the chart.

It's not even just knowing who to talk to again, it's knowing when to talk to them too. You could talk to someone at 10:50 and not get the affinity change because you needed to wait and talk to them at 11:00 instead.

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I'm pretty sure there are some characters that only grant affinity changes after you've spoken with other characters also. The whole system is a bit of a mess and probably not worth the headache considering how easy the actual game is. Any rewards I get out of the affinity system or side quests will most likely not end up being justified.

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I'm not even doing it to make the game easier, I just like exploring the world. I turned on Expert Mode (which every JRPG from here on out should have) the second it was available and I'm at the point where I'm going to start adjusting my levels down to make battles more fun.

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skullbone posted...

It's great that the fast travel system is so quick but Shulk and company need to move at least twice as fast in my opinion. A turbo mode for movement would be a godsend

Every time I play this I miss the running from Xenoblade X so much...

Who was the person who thought Quick Step jewels were a good idea? I have to sacrifice some ability slots just to have the luxury of moving not as much faster as I would like (it caps at 25%). And it makes not want to experiment with playing different characters because I don't want to switch the jewels around.

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oh no I just had the game crash on me

not goty 2020 anymore

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The Mana Sword posted...

oh no I just had the game crash on me

not goty 2020 anymore

I had a glitch where I was stuck in the daze state, even after the battle ended and I had to reset. Luckily I had just fast traveled which triggered an auto save, but it was not a fun experience still

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yeah mine was after a cutscene ended it never loaded back in. didnt lose any progress because I had just warped to a landmark, thankfully

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wait...you can purge spikes???

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